Current Scholars
The Chemical Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointments of the Beckman Center Fellows for the academic year 2010–11.
CHF welcomes six long-term fellows and ten short-term fellows. Below are the fellows, their affiliations, and the titles of their research projects.
Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellows
Sidney M Edelstein Fellowship
- Tayra Maria Carmen Lanuza-Navarro (University of Valencia, Spain)
“Alchemy, Astrology and Books of Secrets: Ideas and Practices before the Spanish Inquisition”
Gordon Cain Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship
- Donna Messner (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Origins of Medical Foods and Their Regulation”
- Cesare Pastorino (Indiana University)
“‘Minerall Tryalls’: Metal Assaying and Experiment in Early Modern England”
John C. Haas Fellowship
- Nasser Zakariya (Harvard University)
“The Matter of Life: The Role of Chemistry in the Scientific Epic”
Long-Term Dissertation Fellows
John C. Haas Fellowship
- Melanie Kiechle (Rutgers University)
“‘The Air We Breathe’: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air”
Charles C. Price Fellowship in Polymer History
- Christine Nawa (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
“Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s Research Style and His Teaching”
Short-Term Fellows
Herbert D. Doan Fellowship
- José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (University of Valencia, Spain), 1 month
“Between Science and Crime: Mateu Orfila and Nineteenth-Century Toxicology”
- Linda Richards(Oregon State University), 3 months
“Disrupting Hozho: A Comparative History of Nuclear Science and Radiation Safety in University Research and Uranium Mining”
Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information
- Matthew Crawford (Kent State University), 3 months
“Chemistry in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic: An Underappreciated Imperial Science?”
Robert W. Allington Fellowship
- William Mark Goodwin (Rowan University), 2 months
“Resolving a Controversy: The Non-Classical Ion Debate”
- Vangelis Koutalis (University of Ioannina, Greece), 3 months
“The Historical Significance of Chemistry as a Philosophical Inquiry”
- Alexander Pechenkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia), 2 months
“The Social History of Quantum Chemistry in the U.S.S.R. (1950-1991)”
- John Stewart (University of Oklahoma), 2 months
“Beyond Chemistry: Affinity as a Unifying Principle in Science at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century”
Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship
- Catherine (Cai) Guise-Richardson (Mississippi State University), 2 months
“Mind and Matter: The Development and Marketing of Thorazine and Stelazine at Smith, Kline & French”
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowship
- Jordi Mora Casanova (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), 3 months
“Alchemical Reminiscences of Modern Chemists in the 19th Century”
Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship
- Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences / Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), 3 months
“The Chemists’ Blues: The History of Prussian Blue and Modern Chemistry”